{"id":271431,"date":"2020-10-10T05:48:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T09:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=271431"},"modified":"2020-10-10T05:48:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T09:48:48","slug":"send-prayer-requests-via-undas-website-cbcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/10\/send-prayer-requests-via-undas-website-cbcp\/","title":{"rendered":"Send prayer requests via &#8216;Undas&#8217; website: CBCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_271433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271433\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pexels-szabolcs-toth-3402746.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-271433\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pexels-szabolcs-toth-3402746-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pexels-szabolcs-toth-3402746-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pexels-szabolcs-toth-3402746-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pexels-szabolcs-toth-3402746-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pexels-szabolcs-toth-3402746.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-271433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The government has ordered the closure of cemeteries nationwide from Oct. 29 to Nov. 4 due to the coronavirus disease pandemic. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is urging the public to send prayer requests for their departed loved ones via the \u201cUndas\u201d website as cemeteries in the country will be closed on November 1 (All Saints\u2019 Day) and November 2 (All Souls\u2019 Day).<\/p>\n<p>Msgr. Pedro Quitorio, CBCP Media Office director, said for this year the website has some new features.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be live online Masses that will be streamed from different places,\u201d he said in an article posted on the CBCP news website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne can even light a candle online while praying for their dear departed,\u201d the Catholic priest added.<\/p>\n<p>It also offers audio and video reflection and catechesis on All Saints\u2019 and All Souls\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n<p>The website was revived by the media office of the CBCP so that Filipinos can request prayers for their dearly departed.<\/p>\n<p>Now on its 9th year, it was originally intended for Filipino seafarers and those in other countries who had no way of celebrating Undas.<\/p>\n<p>The platform initially highlighted an online facility to request for Masses for their beloved dead.<\/p>\n<p>The government has ordered the closure of cemeteries nationwide from Oct. 29 to Nov. 4 due to the coronavirus disease pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is urging the public to send prayer requests for their departed loved &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":271433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271434,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271431\/revisions\/271434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}